1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-49 // 2001

    Climate Politics From Kyoto to Bonn: From Little to Nothing?!?

    Delegates from 180 countries met in Bonn during July 2001 to substantiate the Kyoto Protocol signed in 1997 which imposes limits for greenhouse gases on industrialized countries. After the withdrawal of the…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-20 // 2001

    Price Indices for Information and Communication Technology Industries - An Application to the German PC Market

    Changing product quality, rapid technological progress, and short product life cycles make it difficult to compute indices that correctly reflect the true price movements of IT products. This paper assesses the…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-19 // 2001

    Do R&D Subsidies Matter? - Evidence for the German Service Sector

    In recent times the service sector is often called the driving force of today‘s economies. This paper analyses the innovative activities of German service firms. We investigate whether firms that receive public…

  4. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2001

    Empirie des Steuerwettbewerbs: zum Stand der Forschung

  5. Refereed Journal // 2001

    Do Forecasters use Monetary Models? An Empirical Analysis of Exchange Rate Expectations

    Do financial market analysts use structural economic models when forecasting exchange rates? This is the leading question analyzed in this paper. In contrast to other studies expectations are used instead of…